Date Try this: sit down across from the person you love most, and don’t say a word. Just stare. Into their eyes. For four full minutes. It sounds like a mindfulness gimmick, until your stomach tightens and you realize how long four minutes really is when you’re not putting on a version of yourself for […]
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Date The night swallowed the Cederberg as seven strangers stepped outside. They came chasing constellations, but found something unexpected and necessary. What caught their attention first wasn’t in the sky. It was each other. Over three days, simple moments felt unexpectedly meaningful. Passing the plate felt like a masterclass in presence: the warmth of mushroom
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Date What ‘smuggled’ booze says about capitalism, coping theatre, and the cost of performance. Let’s call her L, she is in late 30s, a doctor. A woman who advises others how to regulate, heal, and function better. She arrived at the retreat with journals, supplements, a schedule cleared for “getting back to herself.” She also smuggled
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Date It hit me somewhere between the oat milk and the probiotic yoghurts, just how many variations of “fix yourself” we’ve been sold. I stood there trying to remember what I came for, blinking through a brain fog that had lasted a year, maybe more. I picked up cheese. Not because I wanted it, but
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Date There’s a moment you’ve probably lived through:You open your laptop to send one email. Forty minutes later, you’ve answered two WhatsApps, Googled a skin rash, checked the weather, and can’t remember what you were doing. This isn’t stress.This is overstimulation. And it isn’t something your mindset can out-muscle. We’ve built a world that’s high
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Date Still tired after your weekend away? You packed the bag. Switched off the phone. Got out of town. But you came back… still wired. Still foggy. Still not rested. There’s a reason for that, and it isn’t because you didn’t meditate hard enough or drink enough green juice. It’s because your nervous system doesn’t
Date You close your laptop and wonder, “Where did the day go?” You feel drained, tired of being tired, but what did you actually do? Here are five sneaky ways your attention slips away—and how to reclaim it. 1. The Momentum Trap You race through tabs, emails, feeds, always moving, never arriving. Motion can feel
Date Survival mode is something we all fall into at some point. It’s that state where everything feels like a crisis, where we’re constantly on high alert while navigating through stress and uncertainty. We might not even realize we’re there because it becomes the default setting, with our mind racing and body tense as we
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Date Back in my student days, I took a job selling insurance. On paper, it seemed straightforward—make calls, sell policies, repeat. But the reality was far more challenging. For every policy I sold, there were countless rejections. Each “no” was like a tiny dagger, a hit to my confidence. But something unexpected happened. I started
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Date Imagine standing under a sky so clear you can see the Milky Way spilling across the darkness. You feel small. Insignificant. Yet deeply connected. That’s the power of astronomy. It’s not just about stars and planets; it’s about igniting a sense of awe and wonder that many of us have lost in our daily
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